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Parallels between Mira Nair’s films and Zohran Mamdani’s politics, an irreverent ’90s trans punk zine, the millennia-long history of fan fiction, Ms. Rachel’s dress, and more in this week’s Required Reading.
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Required Reading
This week: Mira Nair’s influence on Zohran, journalists sound the alarm on the genocide in Sudan, a trans punk zine makes a comeback, Ms. Rachel’s dress, stained-glass leaves, and more.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055516/required-reading-758/
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The US can’t make up its mind about a Venice Biennale representative, the Studio Museum reopens in a beautiful new building, the Philadelphia Art Museum suddenly dismissed its director and CEO, and more art news in this week’s Art Movements.
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Art Movements: Will Anyone Represent the US at the Venice Biennale?
The US continues to bungle the Venice Biennale, a new Studio Museum in Harlem opens, and the Louvre’s security password was, yep, “Louvre.”
https://hyperallergic.com/1055508/art-movements-will-anyone-represent-the-us-at-the-venice-biennale/
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Art schools are marketed as gateways to success. But Damien Davis argues that most leave with loans, little security, and skills that don’t match the marketplace.
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The Art School Debt Trap
MFA programs are marketed as gateways to success. The fine print tells a different story.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055498/the-art-school-debt-trap/
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Even laid flat, the collars on Carmen Argote’s artworks bob up. It’s like a magician went out to an orchard and performed a massive vanishing act, and the laborers left their uniforms behind. Except now, the magicians are ICE agents, and the workers might never return to the audience’s applause.
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Carmen Argote’s Maximalist Homage to Garment Workers
The artist makes each article of clothing in her current exhibition from the same sewing pattern, but they all have their own personalities.
https://hyperallergic.com/1051315/carmen-argote-maximalist-homage-to-garment-workers/
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In this week’s A View From the Easel, artists turn floors into paintings and discarded items into works of art.
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A View From the Easel
“My studio offers fewer distractions and less cat hair.”
https://hyperallergic.com/1055479/a-view-from-the-easel-310/
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Nearly four decades after they came together, a Chilean indie band’s self-titled debut, “MarĂa Sonora,” has finally been formally released — an event marked by their first live gig in 31 years.
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Digging Into Chile’s Punk Underground
With Hueso Records, artist Iván Navarro wants to bring back the music of his youth from legendary Chilean indie and punk bands like MarĂa Sonora.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055340/digging-into-chile-punk-underground/
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The MoMA PS1 is being sued by a visitor who suffered from a concussion and lasting medical problems after a wall-mounted panel at the museum fell and struck her in 2022.
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Visitor Sues MoMA PS1 After Onsite Concussion
A Norwegian citizen was struck by a wall panel during a visit to the museum in 2022.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053105/visitor-sues-moma-ps1-after-onsite-concussion/
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Not one work in the exhibition “Global Fascisms” at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt acknowledges the world burning just beyond the door. In Jara Nassar’s words, “What is the role of art when the world is on fire?”
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The Irony of a Fascism Exhibition in Germany
Once a custodian of critical culture, Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt has become a model of capitulation to state control.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055123/the-irony-of-a-fascism-exhibition-in-germany-berlin-hkw/
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Three free speech groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, have accused a nonprofit museum, History Colorado Center, of censoring an artwork that contained pro-Palestine symbols and criticism of ICE.
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Colorado Museum Accused of Censoring Anti-ICE, Pro-Palestine Artwork
History Colorado Center cited campaign finance laws. Free speech groups are not convinced.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055078/history-colorado-center-accused-of-censoring-anti-ice-pro-palestine-artwork/
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The Studio Museum in Harlem has a new, stunning home. The 57-year-old New York institution, dedicated to artists of African descent, inaugurated its new building in a press preview ahead of its grand public reopening next Saturday.
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A Look Inside the Studio Museum’s New Home
After a seven-year closure, the beloved Harlem institution is opening its new building to the public on November 15.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055430/a-look-inside-the-studio-museum-harlem-new-home/
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Xin Wang’s pastel drawings include skulls, dancing women, frenzied worshippers, goddesses, and lovers who wished to exist outside of law and propriety, to live carnally on the edge of chaos.
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A Trip Through Xin Wang’s Hallucinatory World
Her vision is simultaneously utopian and anarchic, erotic and dissipating, blooming with life and haunted.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055071/a-trip-through-xin-wang-hallucinatory-world/
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“We’re tackling that tech utopian idea of 1950s California, where it was considered progress to convert rivers into concrete canals and computerize the distribution of water, and no one really questioned this.” —Rowan Wernham, director of “Pistachio Wars”
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The Museum Donors Accused of Sucking California Dry
Pistachio Wars argues that billionaires Lynda and Stewart Resnick are harming California’s environment as they artwash their damage.
https://hyperallergic.com/1054778/pistachio-wars-museum-donors-accused-of-sucking-california-dry/
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In Memoriam this week, we’re honoring Alison Knowles, the first woman of Fluxus; Jackie Ferrara, who contained chaos in geometric forms; John Adams Griffin, abstract painter and Color Field pioneer; and Mitchell D. Kahan, former director of the Akron Art Museum.
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Remembering Jackie Ferrara, Alison Knowles, and John Adams Griefen
This week, we honor a sculptor who lived and died on her own terms, a Fluxus pioneer, a color field painter, and more.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053273/remembering-jackie-ferrara-alison-knowles-and-john-adams-griefen/
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“I am still in ecstasy over this,” said artist Molly Crabapple in an interview about Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City.
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Molly Crabapple Is Savoring Zohran’s Win
“We don’t have enough examples of winning, so it’s really important to taste the sweetness when we do,” the artist and activist told Hyperallergic.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055149/molly-crabapple-is-savoring-zohran-mamdani-win/
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Beyond the ballot box, Mayor Mamdani memes are another way the people have spoken — from Shakira Law to Zohran fan edits, to a newly reignited hope for dating in New York City.
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The Best Memes From the New York City Mayoral Election
Hot mayor representation, Shakira law, and unemployed Andrew Cuomo — all you could want, and more.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055075/the-best-memes-from-the-new-york-city-mayoral-election/
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Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
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Opportunities in November 2025
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation, Sculpture Space, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
https://hyperallergic.com/1054876/opportunities-november-2025/
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After an emergency board meeting at the Philadelphia Art Museum, Director and CEO Sasha Suda was ousted via email, three years into her five-year contract with the museum and less than a month into the institution’s controversial rebrand.
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Why Was the Philadelphia Art Museum Director Sacked?
After an emergency board meeting at the Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM), Director and CEO Sasha Suda was dismissed from her post yesterday, November 4.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055084/why-was-sasha-suda-philadelphia-art-museum-director-sacked/
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The promise of change drives creativity everywhere. It’s no surprise that most neighborhoods where artists and the creative community live in New York City voted overwhelmingly for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
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The Creative Essence of Zohran Mamdani's Ascent
The sentiments that drove his inspiring campaign should be familiar to any artistic soul.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055167/the-creative-essence-of-zohran-mamdanis-ascent/
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“Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages” at The Met Cloisters is a counterargument to pop culture depictions of the Middle Ages, dominated by cisgender regulations and gender-normative binaries.
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Mapping the Queer Landscape of Medieval Europe
A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.
https://hyperallergic.com/1054546/met-cloisters-mapping-queer-landscape-medieval-europe/
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At the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Sammy Baloji evokes traces of forgotten splendor in his copper and bronze negatives of 17th- and 18th-century textiles from the Kongo Kingdom.
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Sammy Baloji Mines Congo’s Hidden Histories
By incorporating the colonial archive in his works, Baloji shows how the sinister apparatus of the “civilizing mission” led to the negation and erasure of Congo's past.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053422/sammy-baloji-mines-congo-hidden-histories/
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Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
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Lisa Yuskavage’s divisive drawings, Sarah K. Khan’s unruly women from the African, Arab, and Asian worlds, Destiny Mata’s love letter to the Lower East Side, and more art to see in New York City this week.
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New York City Art Shows That Will Make You Think
Our recommendations this week delve into colonialism, war, feminism, and more, from artists such as Sarah K. Khan and Lisa Yuskavage.
https://hyperallergic.com/1052805/new-york-city-art-shows-that-will-make-you-think-november-2025/
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If you’ve been staring at a costume for a tad too long, trying to figure out what it could be, then the chances are you’ve had a close encounter with Gay Halloween.
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Who Won Gay Halloween This Year?
What’s more gay or queer than pushing that which is marginalized into the spotlight?
https://hyperallergic.com/1054860/who-won-gay-halloween-this-year/
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The Baja California edge-land, an arbitrary and contested frontier, has been a lifelong obsession for Julio César Morales, an artist who’s explored the border’s violent and complex realities in poetic form for over 30 years.
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Julio César Morales Looks at Life on the Edge-Lands
In his exploration of the US/Mexico border, the artist asks: In today’s social climate, who has the privilege of having a future and who does not?
https://hyperallergic.com/1054392/julio-cesar-morales-looks-at-life-on-the-edge-lands/
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Test your knowledge of Surrealism in the latest Art Crossword, full of furry things that shouldn’t be furry, floating apples, and more.
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The Art Crossword: Surrealism Edition
Magritte’s apples, dreamscapes of the unconscious, fur-covered teacups, Carrington’s painterly visions, and more from the 101-year-old movement.
https://hyperallergic.com/1054428/the-art-crossword-surrealism-edition/
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“Observed rituals give us a cultural framework in which to mourn the dead, but they are also there to stop us being pulled down into the earth with our beloved dead at our rawest moment of grief.” —Roger Luckhurt, author of Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead
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A Brief Art History of Grief
Scholar Roger Luckhurt’s richly illustrated book chronicles the ways we memorialize the dead across the world, tracing burial practices from Ancient Greece to the present day.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053484/a-brief-art-history-of-grief-graveyards-roger-luckhurst/
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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, Working Families Party Co-director Ana MarĂa Archila, and City Councilmember Shahana Hanif on Zohran Mamdani’s position on arts and culture:
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Live Updates: NYC Mayoral Election
Get the latest on how the city’s cultural community is voting, feeling, and reacting.
https://hyperallergic.com/1054651/live-updates-nyc-mayoral-election-2025/
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How is New York City’s cultural community voting, feeling, and reacting? Get the latest in our live updates on the mayoral election:
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“A pro-union mayor who sits down with laid-off workers, goes on hunger strike with taxi drivers, shows up to every picket line, consistently demonstrates an understanding of the human cost of work — that is the ally we need in City Hall.” —June Lei, Secretary of DC37 Local 1502
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Why I’m Voting for Zohran as an Art Worker
Mamdani’s campaign is one of the most significant political gatherings of artists and creatives of our time. With sustained organization, it can be a blueprint.
https://hyperallergic.com/1054531/why-im-voting-for-zohran-as-an-art-worker/
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Before the grand opening of Princeton’s new art museum, its longtime director, James Steward, began to feel emotional. “How many times do you get to open a new museum from the ground up in your career? Once every 100 years?” he said. “I’ve been yearning to have the public back.”
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Inside the Newly Reopened Princeton Art Museum
After five years of renovations, the institution invited the public for a 24-hour marathon celebration to inaugurate its new boxy, 146,000-square-foot home.
https://hyperallergic.com/1054579/inside-the-newly-reopened-princeton-art-museum/
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“As a visual artist, I want to live in the city I love and actually afford it instead of constantly feeling like I’m being priced out.” —Samhita Kamisetty
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These Artists Want You to Vote for Mamdani
They're mural painters, sculptors, hat-makers, and gallery workers — and they’d like to keep living in New York City.
https://hyperallergic.com/1054437/these-artists-want-you-to-vote-for-zohran-mamdani/
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Live Updates: NYC Mayoral Election
Get the latest on how the city’s cultural community is voting, feeling, and reacting.
https://hyperallergic.com/1054651/live-updates-nyc-mayoral-election-2025/
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Election Day in New York City is finally here! Tune in to our live coverage throughout the day to get the latest election news from the lens of our art community.
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Live Updates: NYC Mayoral Election
Get the latest on how the city’s cultural community is voting, feeling, and reacting.
https://hyperallergic.com/1054651/live-updates-nyc-mayoral-election-2025/
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Art historian Clementine Bordeaux shares a Lakota perspective on Mount Rushmore: “For a century, our deep-rooted connection to the Black Hills has been disrupted by this eyesore and those who flock ignorantly and actively to a place that we see as our relative, our grandfather and grandmother.”
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Mount Rushmore Is Not My Monument
For a century, our connection to the Black Hills has been disrupted by this eyesore and those who flock to a place that we see as our relative, our grandfather and grandmother.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053984/mount-rushmore-is-not-my-monument/
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John Baldessari once asked his students to defenestrate objects and photograph them mid-air. Five decades later, Nayland Blake shares their own “assignments,” offbeat exercises that might help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves.”
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100 Assignments From Nayland Blake
While Âthese assignments Âwill not turn someone Âelse into me, they Âwill provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
https://hyperallergic.com/1040396/100-assignments-from-nayland-blake/
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A survey of 18th-century painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze focuses on his depictions of childhood. Its conclusion is bizarre, consisting of several examples from a series on spoiled innocence, as well as, more explicitly, lost virginity.
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The Darkness of Greuze’s Doe-Eyed Children
Where an exhibition’s focus on childhood becomes outright problematic is the show’s bizarre conclusion, which considers spoiled innocence.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053285/the-darkness-of-greuzes-doe-eyed-children/
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Exactly one year after Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun bought Maurizio Cattelan’s cursed banana for $6.2 million, the artist is back at Sotheby’s with “America,” a functional, 18-karat gold toilet. Starting bids are expected at around $10.2 million.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Can Soon Be Yours
“America” (2016) will lead Sotheby's “The Now and Contemporary” evening sale on November 18.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053882/maurizio-cattelans-gold-toilet-can-soon-be-yours/
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Six artists, including Tania Bruguera and Phil Collins, said they withdrew from a show at Rome’s MAXXI Museum over its “stance on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
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Artists Call to Boycott Maxxi Museum Over Alleged Israel Ties
Tania Bruguera, Phil Collins, and others said they withdrew their work, citing the institution’s “stance on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
https://hyperallergic.com/1053965/artists-call-to-boycott-maxxi-museum-over-alleged-israel-ties/
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The late sculptor Jackie Ferrara liked to describe herself as a methodical drone, only beginning to build her geometric structures after meticulously plotting them out on graph paper. She planned her death with the same dispassionate logic.
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Jackie Ferrara Lived and Died on Her Own Terms
The sculptor of graceful structures and architectural environments, who died voluntarily last week at age 95, sought to contain life’s chaos in geometric forms.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053766/jackie-ferrara-lived-and-died-on-her-own-terms/
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A lawsuit claims that The Met and a Greek foundation should not have acquired a van Gogh painting stolen by the Nazis, and should return the work to the relatives of its rightful owners.
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Met Museum Sued Over Van Gogh Allegedly Looted by Nazis
The heirs of a Jewish collector say the museum and the Goulandris foundation were aware of the work’s provenance.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053954/met-museum-sued-over-van-gogh-allegedly-looted-by-nazis/
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Later in life, Ruth Asawa’s sculptures became fractal, exploding outward rather than tending inward, each branch end begetting ever more. Are they roots or tendrils? Beginnings or ends?
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In the Shadow of Ruth Asawa
Shadows aren’t an afterthought in her work, but another dimension of it — another way one thing can contain or serialize into an infinity.
https://hyperallergic.com/1050293/in-the-shadow-of-ruth-asawa-moma/
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Culture might seem a less consequential right than due process or free assembly. Its infringement by the US government makes less spectacular news than police action or protests. In this way, the repeal of a right that took decades to build is at risk of going unreported.
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How to Protect Your Right to Culture
The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.
https://hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-to-protect-your-right-to-culture/
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A corpse flower is blooming in the Bronx, how hip-hop shaped a novelist’s definition of home, protests at the British Museum’s “Pink Ball,” and more in this week’s Required Reading.
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Required Reading
This week: the Bronx’s corpse flower, Jesmyn Ward on hip hop, the danger of SNAP’s expiration, horror and healing, Zohran jack-o-lanterns, and more.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053458/required-reading-757/
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Toshiko Takaezu worked tirelessly to build a career in a field dominated by White men. For six decades, she created primarily nonfunctional ceramic forms aligned with the natural world. Many of these vessels are maps of her touch.
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Toshiko Takaezu’s Clay Vessels Will Fill You With Awe
She melds the art world, the internal realm of the human spirit, the ancient origins of clay forms, and the forces of nature in her ceramics.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053324/toshiko-takaezu-clay-vessels-will-fill-you-with-awe-chazen-museum/
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In Memoriam this week, we’re honoring Frank Wimberly, an integral part of abstract expressionism; Carla Stellweg, who forged a wider path for Latine artists; Ed Kerns, who attempted to capture an octopus’s consciousness; and more.
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Remembering Carla Stellweg, Frank Wimberley, and Ed Kerns
This week, we honor a visionary of Latin American art, an experimental abstractionist, an educator with a scientific streak, and others.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053145/remembering-carla-stellweg-frank-wimberley-and-ed-kerns/
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After years of staff complaints and high attrition, Gaëtane Verna is no longer the executive director at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Sources alleged that she had a track record of screaming at employees in meetings and lashing out at anyone whose curatorial opinions contrasted with hers.
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Wexner Center Director Departs Amid Staff Complaints
Gaëtane Verna is "stepping away from her role," said an email from Ohio State University's provost reviewed by Hyperallergic.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053106/wexner-center-director-departs-amid-staff-complaints/
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In this week’s A View From the Easel, artists work amid the background sounds of Manhattan traffic — and the forests of the Andes!
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A View From the Easel
“I’m not one of those incessant mark-makers; I spend a great deal of time just looking.”
https://hyperallergic.com/1053430/a-view-from-the-easel-309/
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Champagne flutes rattled as The Museum’s grand atrium doors groaned shut. At first, no one noticed. The art world rarely notices when the walls start closing in.
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Night at the Biennial
The art world is a scary place. A horror satire.
https://hyperallergic.com/1053571/night-at-the-biennial/
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Five times — that’s the number of instances of the word “Antichrist” In the entirety of the New Testament. Shaky scaffolding for such an evocative character with such outsized cultural influence.
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An Unfinished History of the Antichrist
The sinister figure was shaped by social and political forces throughout the centuries. Is he still walking among us?
https://hyperallergic.com/1052236/an-unfinished-history-of-the-antichrist/
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